Sudan fighting: India Today reports that there was yet another round of shelling and looting in the Sudanese capital.
Khartoum residents told Reuters that a fresh round of shelling erupted between the Sudanese Army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on Monday, June 5. Some people also reported physical clashes between the two military factions in east Khartoum and other parts of the Sudanese capital.
A ceasefire brokered between the two rivals by Saudi Arabia and the United States expired on Saturday last week.
The internal war in Sudan has displaced more than 1.2 million people and forced 400, 000 Sudanese to move to other countries.
There are daily reports of militias looting shops and civilian establishments with nobody to stop the looters. However, the RSF says it is punishing the lawbreakers in its territory.
A humanitarian crisis
Thousands of refugees have migrated to the Central African Republic, Chad and South Sudan. These countries are battling with poverty and the arrival of new refugees complicates the situation even further.Muhammad Ayoya coordinates the delivery of aid to the refugees in Central African Republic. He says that the arrival of new refugees “puts additional pressure on the limited resources available to the 130,000 extremely vulnerable people in the region.”
Moreover, the onset of the rainy season makes the job of Ayoya even more difficult.
Why is there a civil war in Sudan?
The Sudanese Civil War started in 1983 when the Army attempted to impose the Sharia regime on the country’s Christians.
According to PBS, beginning in 1983, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army attempted to spark an insurrection in South Sudan which is mainly inhabited by animists and Christians. Since then, the region has been racked by violence between the paramilitary forces and the Sudanese Army.
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